Section 24. A

24. A Police Officer authorized by a warrant to search any house or Placeto besearched place may break open any outer or inner door or window be broken open. of the house or place in order to execute such warrant, if after notification of his authority and purpose and demand of admittance duly made he cannot otherwise obtain admittance. 25. If tlie place ordered to be searched is a zenanah or apartment in the actual occupancy of a woman who, according to the cusBreaking of a zenanah or female apartment. tom of the country, does not appear. in public, the Officer charged with tlle executioil of the warrant shall give notice to such woman, not being a tvolnau agz~inst wl.iom a warrant of arrest has been issued, that she is a t liberty to withdraw, and, after giving such notice, and allowing a regsonable time for the woman to witl~dra-nr, and affording her every reasonable facility for ~vifhdrawing, sl~cli Officer may enter *such zenanah or apartlne~t for the purpose of completing tlie search, 11sing at tllc same time every precaution consistent with these provisiolis for preventing the clandestine 1.einoval of property. ACT No. XIII OF 1861. 26. The search of any house or place shall be made in presence of two Search to be niade `in`[or more respectable inhabitants of the place in which the ] the presence pf >vitnessw. house or place'searched is situate, but such persons shall not be required to attend the Court of the Magistrate as vvitnesses unless specially summoned by such Magistrate. The occupant of the Occupant of the place searched may attend. house or place or some person in his behalf shall, in every instance, be permitted to attend during the search. 27. I n any case ir, which it shall be necessary to cause a female .to be Mode of searching fe-[searched, the search shall be conducted with strict regard ] males. to the habits and customs of the country.